“Canyon Spree’s music is mostly about a fantasy world, made of stories and images”, says Canyon Spree songwriter Stéphanie. Her inspiration: “Movies, especially horror flicks, Western and Road-movies from the 60s and 70s.” This results in songs like “Badlands” or “Children of the Night” with the typical band sound between Punk and Psychedelic.

Since summer 2013 Canyon Spree transforms their inner picture world into music – part of the Berlin based band are Stéphanie (guitar, singer), Renée (guitar, singer) and Katharina (drums). Country boarders didn’t stop them from meeting each other, their love for Garage music and the Internet brought them together. The French Stéphanie, who was back then new in town, used the couch surfing community to find others to found a band with. She stumbled over the profile of Katharina from Berlin, who was studying in Sweden during that time. They started texting with each other and found similarities like the enthusiasm for Black Sabbath, Ty Segall or Hellshovel. A plan was directly formed: Right after Katharinas term abroad, they would start to make music together in Berlin. No sooner said than done! They just had to find a third band member. They met via friends the New Zealander Renée and the sweat-inducing rehearsals in a Kreuzberger cellar began.

In a really short time Canyon Spree became one of the most exciting newcomers of the local Garage scene – and this just with the help of a handful of published demo songs. Just recently the three were booked as openers of the gig of Jeffrey Lewis at the Berghain Kantine and The Anna Thompsons at the Auster Club. They became a part of the creative environment of Berlin that made Renée and Stephanie leave their home countries in the first place. Just seldom they get wanderlust: “For now, that’s where I want to be”, says Renée. Her band members agree. What a stroke of luck for Berlin.